July 24, 2009
ITCi White Paper: Challenges and Opportunities of PCI
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) provides an enterprise structure for improving operational, security, and audit performance. The benefits of the PCI DSS go beyond audit costs and results, however.
As a security model, PCI requirements can help companies control compliance costs and build a more efficient and reliable IT infrastructure that delivers better service while incurring less risk.
This whitepaper from the IT Compliance Institute looks at:
•PCI basics and compliance challenges
•Exploiting PCI's opportunities and improving business performance with PCI DSS controls
•Suggestions for a smooth PCI implementation
•Measuring PCI performance gains
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July 24, 2009
Beyond PCI Checklists: Securing Cardholder Data with Enhanced File Integrity Monitoring
Many organizations pass a PCI DSS audit, but still find themselves in the news after suffering a security breach. Part of the issue may be that the configuration settings were compliant with the settings specified in the PCI DSS, but only for a point in time. This white paper discusses:
•The two areas of technical controls the PCI DSS requires-configuration and change process controls.
•How Configuration Assessment helps you address the configuration checklist items in the PCI DSS.
•How Enhanced File Integrity Monitoring helps you maintain PCI DSS compliance over time in the face of configuration change.
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July 22, 2009
Achieving Energy Efficiency
ExxonMobil worked with Emerson Climate Technologies to
install an energy management system that would deliver both energy and maintenance
savings. ExxonMobil wanted to be able to communicate remotely with its stores, log data collected from the operation of HVAC, refrigeration, and lighting equipment at each site and develop a real-time monitoring solution that addresses alarms automatically.
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July 17, 2009
Breaking The Cost Barrier Of Trade Promotion Management
Despite the sheer volume of spending on trade promotions, some studies estimate as many as 60% of CG companies are still relying on manual processes, desktop spreadsheet applications, and custom-built tools for promotion planning, tracking, and reconciliation.
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January 19, 2009
Counterfeit Money Entering Circulation Increasing Significantly
Retailers experience theft in various forms including cash shrinkage, armed robbery and the passing of counterfeit notes. In 2008, Dallas police reported that arrests for note counterfeiting were up 84% over 2007 and they expect significant increases through 2009.
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November 24, 2008
Cash Room Automation: A “Revolution” Has Begun
Cash handling, checking in and out sales clerk tills, and reconciliation of cash to the POS system remains a labor intensive, inefficient process for most retailers. In spite of a growing percentage of sales transactions conducted with credit or debit cards, the actual total value of cash handled continues to grow.
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March 10, 2008
Eliminating Cash Shrinkage
Eliminating cash shrinkage remains an elusive goal for most store operators. The basic necessity of multiple employees handling cash throughout the day complicates the ability to manage cash. The cash management processes which retailers have employed to date have reduced cash shrinkage, but by
no means have eliminated it.
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Circle K Pushes Finds A Solution
To address the many challenges associated with the integration of financial products and services, Circle K turned to Alliance Data, a leading provider of payment processing solutions to convenience and petroleum industries.
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Cumberland Farms Networks Infrastructure
Its network of retail stores, gas stations, and a
support system including petroleum, dairy and
grocery distribution operations spans 11 states across
the Northeast and Florida, making it the largest
convenience store and petroleum marketers in the
Northeast.
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Dresser Wayne Launches Advanced Fuel Dispensers
A high-volume national retailer wanted to add fuel sales to its offerings, but was apprehensive that unreliable dispensers would damage its customer reputation. The challenge for Dresser Wayne was to develop an intelligent fuel dispenser with fail-safe reliability.
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